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PACKAGE Filed July 23, 1934 @fray/vnf Patented Nov. 22, 1938 PATENToFFlcE PACKAGE Eva Jo Helber, St. Louis, Mo., assigner to Brooks PaperCompany, St. Louis, Mo., a corporation of Missouri Application July 23,1934, Serial N0. `736,467

` 1 Claim.

This invention relates to a certain new and useful improvement inpackages and has for its chief object the provision of a packagecomprising a compactly and securely wrapped and enclosed pile ofindividual sections, the package being readily and inexpensivelyconstructed and the wrapper of the package including a portion forpartial severance for enabling the convenient successive removal orwithdrawal of the contained sections Without disruption of the package.

And with the above and other objects in view,

my invention resides in the novel features of form, construction,arrangement, and combination of parts presently described and pointedout in the claim. e

In the accompanying draWing,-

Figure 1` is a perspective View of a package embodying my invention;

Figure 2 is a similar View of the package as in opened condition for thesuccessive removal or Withdrawal of the contained sections; and

Figure 3 is a plan View of the blank or sheet employed as the `wrapperin the construction of the package.

Referringnow more in detail and by reference characters to the drawing,which illustrates a preferred embodiment of my invention, the packageincludes a wrapper or outer-member A, which is constructed preferably ofanysuitable flexible or bendable material, such as paper of properweight and thickness, and which preferably is in the form of arectangular section of desired dimensions.

B designates the contents of the present package, which comprises anydesired number of individual sections or sheets of Cellophane, or otherflexible paper, cloth, fabric, or the like, each also of rectangularformation, but smaller in dimensions than the wrapper A. r

In the formation of the package, the sections B are disposed inpilerelation and, in such relation, placed in properly centered position inthe fiatwise disposed wrapper A, which then along the `transverse linesl, 2, 3, and 4, is first folded to 5 embrace the pile of sections B. Theopposite end portions of the wrapper A are then folded downwardly, theninwardly, and then upwardly along the respective lines 5, 6, and 1, andthe sections B thereby completely enclosed by and within the so-foldedWrapper A. A section of suitable sealing-tape 8 is then affixed to andupon the ends and on the under side of the package, as shown, for bothpermanently securing the wrapper A in enclosing sealed relation aboutthe sections B, and the sections B in compact, pile relation.

The wrapper A, however, is initially provided suitably Within its areawith what might be described as a U-shaped line of perforations 9,

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(Cl. 20G-57) which forms a zone of weakness extending crosswise of theupper wall and also partially upon an adjacent side of ythe packageyasbest seen in Figure l. Upon severance along such line of perforations orweakness, the released portion of the wrapper A provides an integrallyjoined ap I0, which may be readily folded to open position, as shown inFigure 2, convenient access to the contained sheets or sections B beingthereby afforded for the facile removal or Withdrawal thereof insuccession.

The package is simple in structure, may be inexpensively manufactured,and serves efficiently in the performance of its intended functions, andit is to be understood that changes in the form, construction,arrangement, and combination of the several parts of the package may bemade and substituted for those herein shown and described withoutdeparting from the nature and principle of my invention.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim and desire to secure byLetters Patent is,

A package comprising, with a plurality of substantially rectangularsheets assembled in stacked relation to thus present a substantiallyrectangular prismatic pile formation, and a Wrapper formed of a singlesubstantially rectangular sheet wrapped around the sides and interfoldedand secured at the ends of the pile formation to thus present a wrappedpackage, preserving the substantial prismatic rectangular shape of thepile formation, said wrapper having the body thereof in its middleportion weakened for severance within a substantially U-shaped formationwith the side lines of the area severance extending substantially acrossa flat side of the sheets of the pile formation adjacent to theinterfolded ends to terminate at their ends at one side edge of thepackage and having the bight of the line of severance extending welldown over an angularly disposed face of the package to present thecross-line of the U-shaped form adjacent to a side edge of the packagesubstantiallydiagonally opposite the edge to which the ends of the U-shaped line terminate, the line of severance being thus presentedentirely within themiddle portion of the Wrapper sheet and being of suchform and location and area as to permit severance and folding back ofthe defined portion of the Wrapper to thus present the piled sheets tobe withdrawn singly from the top while at the same time the unbrokenportions at the ends of the package hold the sheets in place and thearea within the bight of the U-shaped line presents an opening throughwhich the edges of the individual sheets of the pile can be grasped forwithdrawal through the top opening.

EVA JO HELBER.

